You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.